Everything for the Front Door

A stone-cornered timber house with seven rooms is given over to doors and everything that goes on them. Upstairs, a painter decorates a blue-patterned door beside a wall of carved moulding and colour swatches, a conductor leads a flautist and a girl with a clipboard among hand bells on stands and sheet music, and two men study stone and tile samples at a display table. Downstairs, a collector shows a small blue door on a round table in a room of panelled doors, a metalworker operates a hinge press among chains, a keymaker tends a tall turning rack of keys beside a wall of tagged key boards, and last comes a copper-walled room of lion-head knockers and rings. The floors change from rug to chequer to stone to mosaic, so each room stands clear of its neighbours.